Arrangement op threshing-cylinder



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v Thras'hing Machine. No 32.112. 4 a Patented April 23; 186.1;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BAILEY, OF BATAXIA, ILLINOIS.

ARRANGEMENT 0F THRESHING-CYLINDER, CORN-SHELLER, AND GRINDING-MILL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 32,112, dated April 23, 1861.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BAILEY, of

the town of Batavia, county of Kane, and

State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and improved arrangement of threshing-cylinders so mounted and so constructed as to constitute the basis for erecting upon the shaft thereof a shelling and crushing disk, and also a grinding-mill.

Of this invention the following is-a full and sufficient description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and reference, which make part of the description.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine representing a threshing cylinder B, a shelling disk G,and a grinding mill D, all in place on the shaft. Fig. 2 represents details of arrangement of the shelling and crushing disk, C, showing how it may be used and is an edge view of said disk. Fig.

3, represents a front or face View of, C, withthe feeding and crushing parts in place. Fig. 4, represents the adjustable disk of the grinding apparatus D, detached showing the grinding face thereof. Fig. 5 is a detached View of the cylinder and parts.

Similar letters and figures throughout similar parts. The nature of the invention consists in so constructing and arranging a threshing cylinder upon the common frame of a thresher that one of the heads of said threshing cylinder shall constitute a shelling and cruslr ing disk, while at the same time a grinding mill is arranged and mounted on the shaft thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth.

The foundation of this invention as one of value to the farmer, and the artisan, lies in the fact, that the cost of a single cylinder, mounted on a single frame, is as the substitute for three separate frames, and three cylinders, as required in these several mills when found separate. The single machine therefore, according to this explanation, does the work of three ordinary machines as now used on the farm, and requires of course only one third the room to store it.

Letters A, A, &c., represent the general frame of the machine; B the shield or cover represent of the cylinder; B, the threshing cylinder arranged across the machine.

C represents the head of the threshing cylinder but expanded into a somewhat larger disk than the face or end of the cylinder.

D represents the grinding mill arranged in two parts; E the movable bar attached to the stationary part of D.

F is an endless belt of bars arranged in the usual manner as a grain separator.

Gr is the driving pulley for applying power.

H is the shaft generally of iron on which the threshing cylinder, the shelling disk, and the grinding mill are arranged.

(a, a) represent yielding sections for holding the corn ears against the shelling disk C by means of (7c, 71;) which are spiral springs held in place by (f, f) on screws, which may be made to press the sections (a, a) against the disk.

is the hopper for the sheller; the hopper for the grinding mill.

(cl) is the discharge opening for the grinding mill.

(2', represent the lower edges of the sections of the yielding plates controlled by the screws (7, which when screwed firmly up convert the sheller into a crusher, but, when left somewhat loose, reduce it to a sheller again.

(it) is the bar to which the sections (a, a) are hinged andby which they may be pressed against the ears of corn.

(Z) represents the hinged part of bar E; (m) the lock of bar E.

The above details are given only for explaining the general arrangement of the parts of the machine, but not to define any peculiarity of the thresher, of the sheller, or of the grinder; as these may be made the subject of separate application if the party so elect hereafter.

The cylinder B has been left without the usual teeth on its periphery; the details of controlling the action of the grinding mill,

as well as'those of the sheller and crusher' have been left without specific description, in. order that the invention may be shown as resting on the arrangement stated in the reof its shaft, a grinding mill When the Whole cital of the invention. is arranged substantially in the manner and WVhat I claim as my invention and desire for the purpose herein set forth. to secure by Letters Patent is, CHARLES BAILEY, 5 S0 constructing the cylinder of a thresh- Witnesses:

ing machine as to form on one head thereof GEO. COATSWORTH, a corn-sheller and crusher, and on the end J. OLOUGH HAINES. 

